Submissions by Keilani
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
All that is transitory is but a metaphor. (Goethe)
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
2nd Jul 2022 1:51pm
2nd Jul 2022 1:51pm
Our Union America
#hope
#humankind
33 reads
0 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Jun 2022 3:11pm
28th Jun 2022 3:11pm
In Compromise
we need not lose
our soul
we need only
to enlarge it
our soul
we need only
to enlarge it
#motivational
41 reads
8 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
28th Jun 2022 3:17am
28th Jun 2022 3:17am
My Country
An undeclared
civil war
rages ‘tween
the polar shores
Ever taut
the rope is pulled
reason sways
on fraying threads
Devoured
by a gnashing fringe
entrenched the grip
on either end
Friction’s heat
shall strike a flame
releasing toxic
blue and red
Lines of battle
newly drawn
since the cry
of blue and gray
One nation
on a precipice
whose voice and...
civil war
rages ‘tween
the polar shores
Ever taut
the rope is pulled
reason sways
on fraying threads
Devoured
by a gnashing fringe
entrenched the grip
on either end
Friction’s heat
shall strike a flame
releasing toxic
blue and red
Lines of battle
newly drawn
since the cry
of blue and gray
One nation
on a precipice
whose voice and...
#politics
#freedom
39 reads
6 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
25th Jun 2022 4:00pm
25th Jun 2022 4:00pm
01.22.1973 - 06.24.2022
Awoke to a new world
today
Where regression
wears the guise of progress
robed in sophistry
With one swift stroke
fell spires
Crumbled ruins
all that remain
of the dying goddess
Liberty
who must again
seek her remedy
in the shade and grime
of back alleys
Between tarring
and feathering
and constitutional
stoning
today
Where regression
wears the guise of progress
robed in sophistry
With one swift stroke
fell spires
Crumbled ruins
all that remain
of the dying goddess
Liberty
who must again
seek her remedy
in the shade and grime
of back alleys
Between tarring
and feathering
and constitutional
stoning
#sadness
51 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
20th Jun 2022 6:06pm
20th Jun 2022 6:06pm
The Last Poem
#apocalypse
88 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
19th Jun 2022 3:03am
19th Jun 2022 3:03am
06172022 - evening
My skin is a stretched Bedouin tent
sewn around your sturm and drang
a billowing cape in storm and wind
In arid desert and open steppe
searching a garden for what we lost
Inside our walls the stars and moon
seek the face of Heaven too
Delicate jasmine kisses each breath
and orchards of Paradise bathe on your lips
Each poem a flower bloom
spilling fragrance on our grassy plain
where sultan and gypsy share one name
Where once a glorious Eden sprung
churned by...
sewn around your sturm and drang
a billowing cape in storm and wind
In arid desert and open steppe
searching a garden for what we lost
Inside our walls the stars and moon
seek the face of Heaven too
Delicate jasmine kisses each breath
and orchards of Paradise bathe on your lips
Each poem a flower bloom
spilling fragrance on our grassy plain
where sultan and gypsy share one name
Where once a glorious Eden sprung
churned by...
#faith
57 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
23rd May 2022 4:14pm
23rd May 2022 4:14pm
The Meaning of Birdsong
What is the song
that the morning bird
sings
awaiting her love
from the mountain
springs
away and far
her memory brings
verses
from ancient dreams
filling spaces
between each beat
a heart knows its own
captivity
longing to thaw
a tundra freeze
the flourishing
of love to believe
she carries the sunrise
upon her wings
that the morning bird
sings
awaiting her love
from the mountain
springs
away and far
her memory brings
verses
from ancient dreams
filling spaces
between each beat
a heart knows its own
captivity
longing to thaw
a tundra freeze
the flourishing
of love to believe
she carries the sunrise
upon her wings
#love
#hope
#inspirational
136 reads
16 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
22nd May 2022 00:59am
22nd May 2022 00:59am
Hardwired
When did you learn
the way of clouds
gathering the raindrops
of your thoughts
dressing them
in silk and straw
Did you gaze at the skies
and trace the light
decoding letters
through the paradox of stars
weaving rainbows
into garments of words
capturing the verve
of galloping hooves
Tap the circuitry
of cosmic mind
download the wiring
from our souls
spear thunder...
the way of clouds
gathering the raindrops
of your thoughts
dressing them
in silk and straw
Did you gaze at the skies
and trace the light
decoding letters
through the paradox of stars
weaving rainbows
into garments of words
capturing the verve
of galloping hooves
Tap the circuitry
of cosmic mind
download the wiring
from our souls
spear thunder...
#humankind
109 reads
10 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
18th May 2022 11:35am
18th May 2022 11:35am
Life
as beautiful as you
see it
beside the mudslid rows
of homes
a flower
fragrant to the nose
can breathe
only
through the heart
of Love
The world
in a kaleidoscope
of changing hues
dazzling light
and shadow
…For you
which holds
most power
Has the pulsing universe
danced in your blood
Have you read the alphabet
of...
see it
beside the mudslid rows
of homes
a flower
fragrant to the nose
can breathe
only
through the heart
of Love
The world
in a kaleidoscope
of changing hues
dazzling light
and shadow
…For you
which holds
most power
Has the pulsing universe
danced in your blood
Have you read the alphabet
of...
#humankind
122 reads
9 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
15th May 2022 12:41pm
15th May 2022 12:41pm
My Address…
is your heart
where I was born
into being
a lowly peasant
granted with Seeing
My passport
held in the treasury
of your eyes
confounds every boundary
subverting all law
into thirsting rivers
oceans now pour
stars from their moorings
become unshored
If they come inquiring
tell them seek!
where mud is stirred
from its nighttime sleep
and my soul resurrects
from its slumbering deep
awakened to life
on the mead of your love
Find me...
where I was born
into being
a lowly peasant
granted with Seeing
My passport
held in the treasury
of your eyes
confounds every boundary
subverting all law
into thirsting rivers
oceans now pour
stars from their moorings
become unshored
If they come inquiring
tell them seek!
where mud is stirred
from its nighttime sleep
and my soul resurrects
from its slumbering deep
awakened to life
on the mead of your love
Find me...
#love
104 reads
8 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
11th May 2022 3:35pm
11th May 2022 3:35pm
To Prevail
Unwrap
the bandages
that kiss the wound
ploughed east to west
through our heart
spun
by the breath
of angels
when you forgot
our love
Our love
reversed the course
of moon and sun
Gravity’s habit
turned awry
causing flowing waters
to run dry
You sought
temples churches mosques
and parched
remained your soul
seeing not
the mighty tower
of our love
So come
dressed in feet
unstrapped
and upon the water
shall we walk ...
the bandages
that kiss the wound
ploughed east to west
through our heart
spun
by the breath
of angels
when you forgot
our love
Our love
reversed the course
of moon and sun
Gravity’s habit
turned awry
causing flowing waters
to run dry
You sought
temples churches mosques
and parched
remained your soul
seeing not
the mighty tower
of our love
So come
dressed in feet
unstrapped
and upon the water
shall we walk ...
#love
117 reads
10 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
24th Apr 2022 3:14pm
24th Apr 2022 3:14pm
Musings on a Day of Rest
#TruthOfLife
129 reads
2 Comments
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